A man has been arrested on suspicion of fraud after three Bath pensioners were scammed by a cold caller who “charged over the odds” for house repairs.

On Tuesday, October 3, Avon and Somerset police officers were called to Leighton Road, Upper Weston following reports that a man had offered to carry out work on a broken roof tile at the home of a woman in her eighties.

The fraudster persuaded the elderly woman to pay cash up front but left without doing any work.

On Friday, September 29, a 91-year-old woman paid over the odds to have a broken tile fixed after a man called at her home in Entry Hill Park, Combe Down.